Rhyme poem
Five-character poetry is a genre of China's traditional poetry, which belongs to the category of modern poetry. This poetic style originated in the period of Qi Yongming in the Southern Dynasties, and its prototype is Shen Yue's new poetic style which pays attention to rhythm and antithesis. In the early Tang Dynasty, it was basically shaped by Shen Quanqi and Song Dynasty, and matured in the prosperous Tang Dynasty.
The whole article consists of eight sentences, each with five words. There are two basic forms: ascending and descending, and the two couplets in the middle must be couplets. Representative works include Seeing Friends Off by Li Bai, Spring Hope by Du Fu and Autumn Night in the Deep Mountains by Wang Wei.
Knowledge expansion:
Five-character rhythmic poetry, referred to as five laws for short, is a kind of rhythmic poetry. Five-character and eight-sentence poems that conform to the standard of metrical poems are five-character metrical poems and belong to the category of modern poems.
Five-character rhyme inherits the basic characteristics of five syllables per sentence, two sentences in a whole article and even number of sentences, and at the same time adds the rules of duality and equality; And these rules are borrowed from parallel prose; Parallel prose came into being from Chu Ci to Han Fu; Therefore, in the final analysis, the five laws are the product of the grafting of the five ancient times.
Five-character verse is the same as seven-character verse, with four sections and eight sentences. Each couplet has a specific name. The first couplet is called the first couplet, the second couplet is called Julian, the third couplet is called the neck couplet and the fourth couplet is called the tail couplet.
Parallel couplets and neck couplets must be opposite, and the first couplet and the last couplet can be right or wrong. Different from the seven laws, the first couplet of the five laws uses antithesis, mainly because the first sentence of the five laws does not rhyme much, and the first sentence of the seven laws does not rhyme much. But this reason is not absolute. In the case that the first sentence rhymes, there are still examples of antithesis in the first couplet.
For the people in the Tang Dynasty, five-character rhythmic poetry is a new poetic style born out of five-character ancient poetry. It inherits the principle that sentences have definite characters and rhyme with other sentences in the Five Dynasties, and draws lessons from the principles of rhythm and duality of parallel prose, which has developed in many aspects.